Never knowingly be serious. Rule 27.
And I definitely do that very British thing of, take things with a pinch of salt, stiff upper lip, you know what I mean?
We take life too seriously: the office of wit is to correct this tendency.
The world is too serious. To get mad at a work of art-because maybe somebody, somewhere is blowing his stack over what I've done-is like getting mad at a hot fudge sundae.
If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective
Don't be serious about seriousness. Laugh about it, be a little foolish. Don't condemn foolishness; it has its own beauties.
He laughs best who laughs least.
I can see the humor in just about any situation. After I lost my dad, I realized that none of us should take things too seriously, because everything except death works itself out.
Folly will run its course and it is the part of wisdom not to take it too seriously.
One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.
